Write Like a Translator
The translator of Luis Felipe Fabre’s Recital of the Dark Verses shares lessons from translation that can improve all creative prose.
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Ten Questions for Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones
“I was writing this hybrid lyric thing that was hard to fall into a rhythm with at first.” —Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones, author of The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History
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Dis-identity Poetics
The author of Recital of the Dark Verses explores poetry and translation as an encounter with “the Other.”
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The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections
An introduction to three new anthologies, including Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance and Black Punk Now: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Comics.
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Ten Questions for Justin Torres
“I was stretching to become a different kind of writer, and that took time.” —Justin Torres, author of Blackouts
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Ten Questions for Shannon Sanders
“I felt that I knew the characters deeply after years of thinking about these stories.” —Shannon Sanders, author of Company
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Ten Questions for Isle McElroy
“Celebrate the small victories!” —Isle McElroy, author of People Collide
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Bugging People: A Guide to Research
The author of Wine People explores how conducting interviews can inform narratives and characters.
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Ten Questions for Cintia Santana
“For me, giving language to something, finding a name for it, enacts a kind of metabolic process.” —Cintia Santana, author of The Disordered Alphabet
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On Characterization
The author of Wine People offers an exercise in getting to know your characters.
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